Rendering With Mental Ray (mental Ray Handbooks) (Hardcover)

Written by the mental ray software project leader, this book gives a general introduction into rendering with mental ray, as well as step-by-step recipes for creating advanced effects and tips and tricks for professional users. A comprehensive definiton of mental ray's scene description language and the standard shader libraries are included as the basis for all examples. The third edition covers the latest version of the new generation of mental ray, version 3.3. A CD with a fully programmable demo version of the software, together with example scene data and shaders that are described in the book, is enclosed. Furthermore, the CD contains the entire 2nd volume of the mental ray books, ?Programming mental ray?. Finally, the CD also contains a demo version of the mental ray library for integration into 3D applications and the corresponding documentation in the form of an up-to-date version of the corresponding sections of the chapters on ?Integrating mental ray? of the book ?Programming mental ray?.